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How the Responsibilities of Conferences Mirror Those of Media Platforms

September 16, 2024September 17, 2024 Adrian SegarEvent design

Rereading a 2012 post by Jeff Jarvis, I was struck by the parallels between his take on news organizations’ responsibilities to their platforms and the responsibilities of conferences. Here’s the post in full: Let’s compare Jeff’s points about media platforms’ […]

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Ignore all previous instructions

July 15, 2024July 17, 2024 Adrian SegarLearning, Technology

Large language models (LLMs) have made significant strides in natural language processing, yet their safety features can sometimes be bypassed with simple prompts like “ignore all previous instructions.” For example, uncovering Twitter “users” that are LLM-powered bots spewing disinformation…

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Don’t keep me a secret!

February 12, 2024February 8, 2024 Adrian SegarEvent design, Marketing

Don’t keep me a secret! For over thirty years I’ve been making clients’ conferences significantly better, for about the cost of a conference coffee break. How? I make conferences better by dramatically increasing attendee satisfaction. Increasing attendee satisfaction increases the […]

Fake women event speakers? We need to think bigger!

December 4, 2023November 30, 2023 Adrian SegarEvent professionals, Satire

For heaven’s sake! Fake women event speakers? Fake articles by fake writers in Sports Illustrated? Meeting professionals: this is a golden opportunity! We need to think bigger! Yes, friends, it’s now obvious that what our industry needs is…fake events! Think […]

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Meeting room designs for both in-person and remote participants

August 7, 2023February 12, 2025 Adrian SegarEvent design, Technology

Now that small hybrid meetings are commonplace, what meeting room designs work for a mixture of in-person and remote participants?

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A class is a meeting

September 12, 2022April 5, 2025 Adrian SegarEvent design, Learning, participation

Though I don’t teach college anymore, I’m interested in educational class design because a class is a meeting. And much of what we can do to design great meetings is applicable to college classes too. So I had high hopes […]

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Two novel hybrid meeting formats

April 18, 2022July 14, 2023 Adrian SegarEvent design

I’ve been writing about hybrid meetings for a long time; my first post was in February 2010. The COVID19 pandemic created an explosion of interest in hybrid meetings, and the marketplace and event professionals are still defining what “hybrid” means. […]

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Make the meeting bigger!

January 10, 2022July 27, 2023 Adrian SegarEvent design

Most of the event industry and our clients continue to assume that if you can make the meeting bigger it’s a good thing. It ain’t necessarily so. How we got here The massive disruption of in-person events since March 2020 […]

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Lessons learned from online meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic

August 30, 2021July 19, 2023 Adrian SegarEvent design

The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) has published some useful lessons learned from organizing six online scientific meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here is my summary of what I think are the most interesting findings, plus […]

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Hub and spoke meetings

July 19, 2021May 14, 2024 Adrian SegarEvent design

Ever since my first encounter with the hybrid hub and spoke meeting topology at Event Camp Twin Cities in 2011, I’ve been a big fan of the format. Yesterday [see below], I realized that hub and spoke is a great format […]

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